[Distutils] platform specific python only wheels

[Nick Coghlan]

On 31 Jan 2014 04:41, "Daniel Holth" <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You are probably a perfect customer for supports_environment

It occurs to me that if we split the hooks stuff out of PEP 359, we'd be
pretty close to a releasable metadata 2.0 spec...

Cheers,
Nick.

>
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com>
wrote:
> >
> > On 30 Jan 2014, at 19:36, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Ronald Oussoren <
ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 30 Jan 2014, at 19:19, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Your best bet currently is to execute the "mv" command to change the
> >>>> filename of the wheel.
> >>>>
> >>>> I think bdist_wheel should probably accept a setup() argument to set
> >>>> the tags. Currently you can just set a "universal" flag which means
> >>>> pure 2+3 python.
> >>>
> >>> There's also --plat-name argument for the setuptools command, but
that doesn't work.
> >>>
> >>> I'd have to rename the platform tag from "any" to a list of supported
platforms, is that correct?
> >>>
> >>> That would give a pretty convoluted filename, because the platform
tag doesn't allow for wildcards. That is, there is no way to specify "any
linux", only something like "linux_x86_64" (to borrow a tag from PEP 425).
> >>
> >> My position has been that if there is no alternative that works on a
> >> different platform, then at least the wheel metadata should say
> >> nothing. It's only there to allow the installer to pick among the best
> >> of several alternatives.
> >
> > The py2app setup.py file currently hardcodes a platform check because
users did install py2app on other platforms (mostly Windows) and then
complained that it didn't work. It is much nicer to tell the user that a
package won't work during installation.
> >
> > Ronald
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